Aksel Hennie (39) runs daily through tough training to be in shape for the role in Per-Olav Sørensen new TV series on Norwegian soldiers and special mission in Afghanistan .
– I have to keep steady hand, both in terms of themes and the physical. But also because this project violates a principle I always had, which is about to not sign any political, says Hennie VG continues:
– But it is impossible not to be present with own thoughts when we start with something that is so searing thematically and politically.
At a press conference Monday, it became known that he will play the lead role of Lieutenant Erling Riiser in NRK new drama commitment “Nobel – peace at any price”, which is directed by “The battle for heavy water” director Per-Olav Sørensen.
Boot Camp
Riiser soldier of the Armed Forces Special Command (FSK) and has been on several missions in Afghanistan this fiction series.
– When I read the script the first time it was very obvious to me that if I got the chance to play in the series, had I really, really want to do it, says Hennie.
He has just completed work on Ridley Scott’s new film, “The Martian” against actors like Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig and Jessica Chastain. About three weeks he starts recording of the Norwegian drama series, when the Nordic size Tuva Nuvotny, Christian Rubeck and Anders Danielsen Lie.
actor ERNE: F. v .: director Per-Olav Sørensen actors Aksel Hennie, Anders Danielsen Lie, Tuva Novotny, Ayesha Wolasmal, Christian Rubeck, Danica Ćurčić and athe Adel. Here at Monday’s press conference in the capital.
Sorensen says that all actors had to audition for their roles, and several of them had also through a tough “boot camp” last summer to see if they had physics required. Among other Hennie and Danielsen Lie was picked from this.
Preferred Norwegian role
The director says he is aware of what offers Aksel Hennie has from abroad and that he was in no way sure to get him.
– He now worked with Ridley Scott, and I know what offers he has abroad. It’s pretty amazing offer, so there was no guarantee that he would pick us. I’m very glad that he did, the director says.
Secretary: Christian Rubeck play a Secretary of peace in Afghanistan as its personal goals in the series.
Photo: Frode Hansen , VG
Hennie itself, however, said he was sure that he had to take the role if he got it:
– When I read the script I knew that if I got the part, I was not in doubt. It is a kind of story you rarely bump. It is a type of project I’ve been looking for a long time, says Hennie.
Sorensen, who previously worked as a journalist, has long wanted to create drama that touches our time. He hopes this series, which starts recording three weeks and should be sent in autumn 2016, will generate debate.
Want debate
– There is little debated what Norwegian soldiers really must do in a war zone – and now we show it. That also has major consequences for these people’s lives on. I think it is a very nice venue to go into. I think it almost as strongly about not we get reactions to this series, we have not done our job, he said.
– It is clear I have a desire that I have contributed to being debated, but first and foremost we will make the series for it to be seen – that it will interest and engage underlines Hennie.
– Sørensens last TV series for NRK was seen by up to 1.7 million Norwegians. What thoughts do you have about viewing figures for this?
– Everything I do, I want as many as possible to see. Every movie and series, because I do them because I experience them as important or interesting. Artists who report that it is not so important whether their art is seen, is different from me. I have a completely different gene – I create what I do with a wish that people should understand look, like, dislike, be involved in and have an opinion about what I do, says Axle.
Tough military training
And while the character is special soldier in FSK, has not actor initial service.
– I’ve never been in the military. I started working and studying pretty early, so I have always postponed it. The military training I have received in adulthood, through movies like “Max Manus”, “Age of Heroes” or now “Nobel”. I have “crash course VK2″ in the military, he says and laughs.
Lieutenant: Anders Danielsen Lie plays Erlings childhood friend, Lieutenant Jon Petter Hals in FSK.
Photo: Frode Hansen , VG
– How good shape you need to be?
– I try to be as optimal form as possible. Norway educates Armed Special Forces Command, which is one of the world’s best special forces. They are best trained in all areas: weapons, melee, fitness. They train in harsh conditions and they are of other countries seen as most capable and persevering special forces in the world. So I must makse my shape and be as well prepared as I can be, says Hennie who says that he daily exercise varied with people from FSK: Among other strengths, weapons training and combat training.
Speaking with soldiers
He is known to go powerful approach in preparation for roles, as when he played wife molester in “90 Minutes” and talked with men who had beaten their wives, when he trained diving before, “Pioneer” and trained themselves extremely up before the “Hercules.”
In UD Tuva Novotny plays Elings wife and communications advisor at the Foreign Ministry, and has trained a lot on how they talk in the ministry.
Photo: Frode Hansen , VG
– I speak daily with people in that environment I should portray. Both to talk about everyday stuff, that’s about it being at home, having a family, being away long – it Of course I know a little, but also about what it is to be a special soldier. I accrue me a bank info I hopefully can use. And then there’s a tough job against screenplay, creating an authenticity and credibility one needs in such a project, he said.
Although the story is fictional, has Sørensen and writers Mette M. Bølstad and Stephen Uhland worked thoroughly research – also in collaboration with the Armed Forces.
Have taken liberties
They have talked with military philosophers, lawyers, officers and soldiers from a broad background experience.
– We did extensive research in the beginning, so we wrote freely, and so we have gone through the facts checking the last nine months and received a lot påpakninger and shut up, says Bølstad about the process.
– We take liberties as far as we can within the limits exist. We have not gone beyond anything they are able to do or have done, says Uhland.
– Met you resistance along the way?
– Yes. They had many objections. What we do is checked and within, and so we have gone as far as we can in what could have happened. We explain if something goes against common behavior. Much of what we researcher teeters on classified material, so when we get enough allowed to go a little further than we could have done if it were specific conditions or specific events, since we work with fiction, points Bølstad and elaborates:
– We have done intentionally. We started more documentary but has gone a bit away from it to go more into some of the most interesting.
Buyer military equipment
She says that they have collaborated extensively with military.
– And we have not got any requirement that they are checking or reading. They have shown us a tremendous confidence all the time, and we are very keen that we should do things properly and be nuanced in the manufacture of particular soldiers, for it is often those who are least nuanced prepared, says scriptwriter.
The series has received 12 million in support of the Norwegian Film Institute and has a total budget of 68 million.
– Every time something explodes, it is expensive, and it does in war . Some of the action unfolds in war zones and can be as expensive as just that, so we need to choose wisely. It had not done anything to have 20 million, says Sørensen.
He says that a large part of the cost also goes to the correct military equipment, like real uniforms from the Armed Forces Special Command.
– Nothing is indifferent
– We will have the right things: weapons, uniforms and pictures – it’s really expensive.
– Can not you build copies?
– No, we shall publish ourselves to be a proper squad, and it must be so. We buy equipment approved by the military, and then we’ll see what we do afterwards, we must deliver it or whether they buy it back, says the director continues:
– The heaviest research stage comes after summer. It goes on operational data – how the soldiers they move, how they go into a house. There is much tedious, and we must do it properly. We need facts check throughout. It is fiction, but we will be as accountable as possible.
All Research over the past three years despite, and it still remains at recording start April 14th, the “Nobel” is project after Sørensens heart:
– There is a Kinderegg for me: It is easier to go into something that is simultaneously it provides interesting policy issues, and in a war zone occurs course dramatic thing – which also affects the happens close family members. Then suddenly increases the dramatic pot violently, so nothing gets indifferent. And it seems I am very delicious, he said.
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